• They/Them

Black, Autistic, Queer, and Tired. Mostly into bad puns. Adult. Alleged comics critic? #1 Black Cyclops Truther



KaterinaBucket
@KaterinaBucket

This is about tumblr but it isn't ONLY about tumblr but I really, REALLY hate it when statements that begin with "I hope" are construed as threats. Like this isn't an "oh it's not a real threat it's an obvious joke" thing the issue is straight up linguistic. Like motherfucker can you even read? Can you read words? Is the CEO of tumblr fucking.. illiterate?
"I will shit your pants" - obviously a joke, patently ridiculous, but, technically, a threat
"I hope you shit your pants" - categorically not a threat. Possibly a very mean thing to say, perhaps even banworthy, but a different type of mean thing that isn't a threat


KaterinaBucket
@KaterinaBucket

"someone oughtta shit that guy's pants" - might be a threat?



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in reply to @rotsharp's post:

Obviously ridiculous but at least, like, syntactically coherent? Matt on the other hand is making a straight up category error
Also, similar example to the tumblr thing, my wife was banned from twitter for posting "i hope someone kills elon musk" and then later unbanned when she sent an appeal pretending to be right wing